Europe's response to the financial crisis and recession has suffered from a lack of effective co-operation among eurozone governments and their leaders, the outgoing head of Europe's employers' association said yesterday. “The great weakness we've felt in the crisis is the weakness of the eurozone institutions. Not the European Central Bank, which has been extremely efficient. If we'd had a hesitant or technically weak ECB, we would have been in chaos,” said Ernest-Antoine Seillière, president of BusinessEurope.
即將離任的歐洲僱主協會BusinessEurope負責人昨天表示,歐元區各國政府和領導人之間缺乏有效合作,影響了歐洲應對金融危機和經濟衰退。「我們在這場危機中感受到的最大短板,就是歐元區機構的薄弱。這不是說歐洲央行(ECB),該機構一直效率極高。如果歐洲央行猶豫不決,或是在技術上較爲薄弱,那麼我們早就陷入混亂了,」BusinessEurope總裁歐內斯特-安東尼·塞利耶(Ernest-Antoine Seillière)表示。